XIO (formerly called Xiotech) is the leader in performance
driven storage with the best price/performance/capacity ratios of any solution
in the market. XIO pioneered the only True SHD storage system that amalgamates
SSD and HDD in a single pool of storage, resulting in extreme performance that
changes the economics of the data center. XIO empowers enterprises to drive
database performance to its limits, accelerate business analytics, enable VDI
deployments and greatly improve their server virtualization consolidation
ratios. In addition, enterprise-class reliability and ease of use are in our DNA
and core aspects of all our storage systems. XIO is field-proven with thousands
of deployments worldwide.

In July 2006 Xiotech announced support for
solid state disks as
accelerators in its Magnitude 3D® 3000 virtual storage systems -- making it
the first Fibre channel
SAN switch maker to support SSD technology.

Editor's comments:-
February 2010 - I like XIOtech's blog -
Performance (Still) Matters -
in which the author Rob Peglar says - "...there's only 24 hours in a day,
and that is the inexorable limit we all battle."

In January
2011 - Xiotech
joined the crowding SSD ASAP market with the
launch
of its Hybrid ISE - a 3U FC rack with 14TB of capacity and 60,000 IOPS
performance which internally uses a mixture of 2.5" SSDs and HDDs.

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popular
SSD articles on StorageSearch.com

SSD Myths - "write
endurance" - In theory the problems are now well understood - but
solving them presents a challenge for each new chip generation.

this way to the Petabyte
SSD - This article describes the future storage architecture of the
datacenter, explains the economics of SSDs replacing HDDs for bulk storage and
suggests a roadmap for getting there.

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"Boot Storms can cause
tens of thousands of IOPS with just a few hundred users. Im getting to
60,000 Storage IOPS before the cores on the UCS get close to 100%. Any Proof
of Concept should consider booting some significant number of desktops during
testing to measure the effect to the end-user experience."